# Kai Franz

> Software Engineer at Yugabyte

Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/kaifranz

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer II @ Yugabyte
Jan 2025 – Present

### Software Engineer @ Yugabyte
Jan 2023 – Jan 2025 | Sunnyvale, California, United States

### Research Associate @ CMU Database Group
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023
DB + Compilers, advised by Andy Pavlo and Todd Mowry

### Software Engineering Intern @ Amazon
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Palo Alto, California, United States
Amazon Redshift—Designed & implemented a system to dynamically tune Redshift's query compiler using machine learning.


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science
Carnegie Mellon University

### The Harker School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/kai-franz

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Source: https://flows.cv/kaifranz
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Last updated: 2026-04-11